Large-Scale Land Investments in Least Developed Countries: Legal Conflicts Between Investment and Human Rights Protection

Human Rights

Large-Scale Land Investments in Least Developed Countries: Legal Conflicts Between Investment and Human Rights Protection

By Luis Tomas Montilla Fernandez
Springer-Verlag November 2017

Specifications

ISBN-13
9783319652795
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Publication
November 2017
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Switzerland ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This book analyses large-scale land investments for agricultural purposes in Africa's least developed countries from a law and economics perspective. Focusing on the effects of foreign land investments on host countries' local populations and the apparent failure of international law to create incentives to offset them, it also examines the legal and economic mechanisms to hold investors accountable in cases where their investment leads to human rights violations.

Applying principal agent and contract theory, it elucidates the sources of opportunism and develops control mechanisms to ameliorate the negative effects. It shows that although judicial mechanisms fail to deliver justice, international law offers alternatives to safeguard against arbitrary and abusive state and investor conduct, and also to effectuate human rights and, thus, tackle opportunistic behaviour.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.
I Introductory Part.
II What is 'Land Grabbing'.
III International Law Conundrum.
IV Opportunism in LSLI Contracts: An Economic View
V Tackling Opportunism in LSLIs.
VI Concluding Remarks.
HKD 1,196.00

Inclusive of HK delivery

Ready to ship
Delivery Time: around 4-5 weeks
Extra 10 working days if shipping address outside Hong Kong
  • Free HK shipping over HK$1,000
  • International shipping to 35+ countries
Order Form
Save

Recommended

You may also be interested in these books:

More titles from Human Rights

View all
Abuse of Rights in International Arbitration
Oxford University Press

Abuse of Rights in International Arbitration

Ahmed El Far
HKD 1,544.73
Human Rights and Subjectivity: Imagining a Sensing and Feeling Human
Routledge

Human Rights and Subjectivity: Imagining a Sensing and Feeling Human

Elisabeth Roy-Trudel
HKD 2,168.79
Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law
Brill Nijhoff

Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law

Miriam Bak Mckenna
Essays on Religion and Human Rights: Ground to Stand on
Cambridge University Press

Essays on Religion and Human Rights: Ground to Stand on

David Little
HKD 504.40
The Development of the Right to Property in the European Convention on Human Rights
Brill Nijhoff

The Development of the Right to Property in the European Convention on Human Rights

Henrik Jorem
HKD 1,729.00
Global Health and Human Rights
Routledge

Global Health and Human Rights

John Harrington; Maria Stuttaford
HKD 1,891.50